ESPN’s Keith Law has put together his top 100 prospects in baseball. It is behind ESPN’s paided-content wall but here are the Indians minor-leaguers he has chosen.
13. Carlos Santana, catcher
27. Matt LaPorta, first baseman
58. Adam Miller, pitcher
61. Nick Weglarz, outfielder/first baseman
66. David Huff, pitcher
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how ’bout a link? or at least what the criteria is? last i heard, santana is still learning english, which’d make it kinda difficult to manage a big league pitching staff.
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he reviewed a total of 200 prospects who had to have rookie eligibility (that means they have yet to exceed 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched in the majors, and have not yet spent 45 days on the active roster of a major-league club, excluding callups during the roster expansion period after Sept. 1) as of opening day. (that’s only about 7 per team)
he ranked the indians #5 (of 30) behind the rangers, a’s, rays & braves, due in part to the players we got in the CC trade, but lists the indians as one of maybe 6 ML teams that actually have 12-15 legit prospects.
interesting that santana, not laporta, is our #1 prospect in his opinion, and he thinks that adam miller could be a #1 starter if he stayed healthy.
he also thinks that laporta should be at 1B, listed him as the #5 prospect there. and that our best 3B prospect is: Lonnie Chisenhall, our 2008 #1 pick. the problem is he won’t be in the bigs until about 2012 or so.
he’s ranked our prospects as follows:
1. Carlos Santana, C
2. Matt LaPorta, 1B
3. Adam Miller, RHP
4. Nick Weglarz, LF/1B
5. David Huff, LHP
6. Hector Rondon, RHP
7. Kelvin de la Cruz, LHP
8. Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B
9. Carlos Rivero, SS
10. Abner Abreu, 3B
Barry, you can find it here: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=law_keith&id=3840355
Anything after 25 is premium content, however. The only criteria is less than 130 MLB at bats, 50 innings pitched or no more than 45 days on a major league roster.
These rankings are nothing but a crapshoot.
IIRC, he called evan longoria as rookie of the year last year.
Ranking the Indians 6th overall at this point in time is ludicrous. I suppose you could base that in low level pitching prospects, but remember all the low level pitching prospects of 3-4 years ago that had the Indians rated as a top farm system? They have all flamed out, most before reaching Akron. The Tribe definitely has a handful of outstanding position prospects right now, but it is indeed a crap shoot if you’re ranking a bunch of pitchers who haven’t cracked AA.